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The National Catholic Weekly Feb. 27, 2012 $3.50 of Many Things THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WEEKLY FEB. 27, 2012 $3.50 OF MANY THINGS PUBLISHED BY JESUITS OF THE UNITED STATES ’m not a jock —if by that we mean body. By competitive standards, unlike a muscled guy who watches every Dave, I was not an athlete; but I swam PRESIDENT AND PUBLISHER I Superbowl and never misses a better than most people I knew, and JOHN P. S CHLEGEL , S.J. World Series game. People like that can when I got out of the army and joined throw a forward pass, sink a set shot the Jesuits, I began to take running seri - EDITOR IN CHIEF from center court, hit a golf ball straight ously. It was a double grace: running Drew Christiansen, S.J. and remember the statistics on Tom alone helped me pray; running with a EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Brady and Enos Slaughter. In grammar companion formed friendships that MANAGING EDITOR school, when we chose sides for basket - endure today. Robert C. Collins, S.J. ball or touch football, I was the last guy At McQuaid I hung around track EDITORIAL DIRECTOR chosen. In high school at St. Joseph’s practice and, at 30, trained enough to Karen Sue Smith Prep in Philadelphia, I was cut from run a mile in seven minutes. But my ONLINE EDITOR the swimming team. I was slow. In the breakthrough came when college stu - Maurice Timothy Reidy 1962 basketball game between the stu - dents, whom I had challenged to read CULTURE EDITOR dents and faculty at McQuaid High more books, challenged me to push James Martin, S.J. School in Rochester, where I was teach - myself physically. When I was dean at LITERARY EDITOR ing, one of my Jesuit teammates advised Rockhurst College in Kansas City, a Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. me, when they finally put me into the student signed me up for a half- POETRY EDITOR game, that if I ever got the ball, I should marathon. James S. Torrens, S.J. get rid of it quickly. Somehow the ball At Holy Cross, where I was also ASSOCIATE EDITORS bounced into my hands, and I threw it dean, a student in the residence where I Kevin Clarke right away to the first adult I saw on was prefect tackled me in the hall, Kerry Weber the court. It was the ref. pinned me down and ordered me to ART DIRECTOR My father, a World War I hero and run in the New York Marathon with Stephanie Ratcliffe journalist, was determined that my him. So we did it. I had heard there ASSISTANT EDITOR Francis W. Turnbull, S.J. brother Dave and I would be able to were two kinds of people in the world: “take care of ourselves.” So beginning those who had run a marathon and BUSINESS DEPARTMENT when we were 3, he put us on horse - those who had not. I ran four more in CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER back, taught us to swim in the ocean Boston and Jersey City. Lisa Pope and to paddle a canoe. He knelt down One night 12 years ago I woke up to be our size and had us put on the with a sharp pain in my arm and chest. 106 West 56th Street boxing gloves and fight him. Life Two discs were impinging on my spinal New York, NY 10019-3803 Lesson No. 1: Don’t let anyone push cord. Within days I was on the operat - Ph: 212-581-4640; Fax: 212-399-3596 you around. Our parents sent us to a ing table. I miss running terribly. I take E-mail: [email protected]; summer camp with 35 horses, tennis hourlong walks every morning from [email protected] and fencing lessons, boxing, campfires America House to Times Square or Web site: www.americamagazine.org. and a Saturday morning ritual where Central Park; and when young men and Customer Service: 1-800-627-9533 the whole camp soaped up and bathed women go running by, I ache. I swim a © 2012 America Press, Inc. in the lake. few minutes almost daily and take long At St. Joe’s I went out for crew. bike rides along the Hudson River on Every day the eight of us would run the warm weekends. mile or so from the Prep down to the If I had my wish, every student in a Schuylkill River, row up and down Jesuit school would have to learn to under the great bridges, then run a few swim 100 yards and be able to run a extra miles before jogging home. At 17 mile in 10 minutes. That way fewer I was in the best shape of my life. That young people would drown or suffer summer I went to Alaska to work on the damage that comes with being over - the railroad but was fired after two weight. And all would know the joy of weeks for being too young. diving into an ocean wave or a long run Cover: A family at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate That year I began to understand along the beach. Conception in Washington, D.C. what it means to be at home in one’s RAYMOND A. SCHROTH, S.J. Photo: CNS/Nancy Wiechec CONTENTS www.americamagazine.org Vol. 206 No. 6, WholE No. 4962 FEBruary 27, 2012 ARTICLES 11 PEER PRESSURE A new Catholic wonders how to be pro-life. Ronnie D. Rubit 14 OUT OF PALESTINE Solidarity with a displaced people Elizabeth G. Burr COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS 4 Current Comment 11 5 Editorial A War Worth Fighting 6 Signs of the Times 9 Column A Broken System John J. DiIulio Jr. 17 Faith in Focus Children of God Elizabeth Kirkland Cahill 21 Poem The Physics of Attention Mary O’Connor 29 Letters 31 The Word A Faith That Binds Us Peter Feldmeier 17 BOOKS & CULTURE 20 FILM Sin and grace in the work of Martin Scorsese BOOKS Blue Nights; The Sense of an Ending; Called to Happiness ON THE WEB ON THE WEB A slideshow of Palestinian Christian life , and a review of a new play on the life of Catherine of Siena . Plus, our annual podcast discussion of the Oscar contenders. All at americamagazine.org. 20 CURRENT COMMENT Vatican officials are scrambling to counter assertions by Whither Syria? Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, now the papal nuncio to A double veto by Russia and China on Feb. 5 defeated a the United States, that the management of Vatican City weak U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Syrian State is rife with corruption and waste. President Bashar al-Assad’s repression of the yearlong These stories hint at what could be a much larger prob - popular uprising against his autocratic rule. “A couple of lem. For too long, church officials failed to follow profes - members of this council,” said Susan Rice, U.S. ambas - sional business practices. Parishioners trusted their pastor sador to the United Nations, “remain steadfast in their or bishop to use their donations wisely. Fortunately, many willingness to sell out the Syrian people and shield a dioceses now make their financial statements available craven tyrant.” Russia claimed it would broker talks online; but the large majority do not include data on between the two sides, and the Arab League pledged to parishes, and only a handful have been officially audited. help advance a political transition. Meanwhile, the Syrian Further controls could be put in place. For example, while army launched its heaviest artillery attacks yet on civilian background checks are now required for all church apartment blocks in Homs. Barring outside assistance, the employees in the United States who work with children, Syrian people are destined to suffer even more cruelly. similar mandates do not exist for other church staff. The Free Syrian Army is under pressure to abandon its To be proper stewards of the financial resources they defensive posture; and in response to a yearlong assault by have been given, church officials must adopt transparent Mr. Assad, the population has begun to consider renounc - and fiscally responsible practices at all levels. A national ing nonviolence in favor of outright civil war. Western mandate may be the only way to ensure that all dioceses defense experts are urging arms shipments and training for follow the same standards. the rebels; and some Arab countries, like Saudi Arabia and Qatar, are expected to supply such aid. An international Help From Our Friends consensus exists for defending the Syrian people, begin - Christians who are hoping to become more active in their ning with 13 Security Council members supporting the church communities this Lent might do well to seek a little vetoed resolution. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton is help from their friends. A new study by Samuel Stroope, a organizing a group called Friends of Syria not only to sociology researcher at Baylor University, found that indi - apply increased diplomatic and economic pressure but also viduals with many friendships in a faith community show to unite the Syrian opposition to prepare for “the morning higher levels of religiosity. But sharing a worship space after.” Given the prolonged, lethal attacks by the military does not mean these friends spend their free time dis - on nonthreatening civilian populations, another step might cussing doctrine. The study also showed that church-based be an International Criminal Court indictment of Mr. friendships had greater impact on individuals’ religious Assad and leading members of his regime for war crimes behavior than on their beliefs. Of the 1,600 adults sur - and crimes against humanity. veyed, 42 percent said that they had “a few” friends who attended their place of worship, and 32 percent said “none.” Transparent and Accountable The effect of church-based friendships among Catholics Ten years after the height of the sexual abuse crisis, and Protestants also differs.
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